Australia: Macquarie Island

Statistics

Occurrence records 279,334
Species level 272,053
Species 1,202
Taxa 1,901
Datasets 141
Time range 1879 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 77
No WoRMS match 510
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 45
No accepted name available 91

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 251,260 2,002
eventDate 5,234 0
maximumDepthInMeters 251,279 6
minimumDepthInMeters 251,420 0
occurrenceStatus 244,669 0
scientificName 346 0
scientificNameID 1,675 111

Spatial issues

Records on land 54,854
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 8,901

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
232,719
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
5,907
Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller, 1778
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
4,741
Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch, 1876
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2,183
Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 VU
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2,143
Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
2,127
Phoebetria palpebrata (Forster, 1785) NT
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1,731
Pterodroma lessonii (Garnot, 1826)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
990
Halobaena caerulea (Gmelin, 1789)
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
886
Lepidonotothen squamifrons (Günther, 1880)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
852

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Mecynocera clausi Thompson I.C., 1888
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
11 2013
Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828)
Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia
1 2013
Clausocalanus brevipes Frost & Fleminger, 1968
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
112 2013
Clausocalanus laticeps Farran, 1929
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
57 2013
Paraeuchaeta exigua (Wolfenden, 1911)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda
4 2013
Diomedea gibsoni Robertson & Warham, 1992
Phylum Chordata > Class Aves
1 2013
Obrimoposthia ohlini (Bergendal, 1899)
Phylum Platyhelminthes
100 2013
Spongiobranchia australis A. d'Orbigny, 1836
Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda
1 2013
Adenocystis utricularis (Bory) Skottsberg, 1907
Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae
20 2010
Rama incompta (Hooker f. & Harvey) Boedeker, M.J.Wynne & Zuccarello, 2023
3 2010